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## Executing Measurement Routines

With PC-DMIS, you can easily execute an entire measurement routine or perform partial executions. This topic describes how to perform both full and partial executions. It also explains how to use the Execution dialog box to execute your measurement routines and how to resize the dialog box.

When you choose to execute some or all of your measurement routine by selecting File | Execute or a menu item from the File | Partial Execution submenu, the Execution dialog box opens. Also, if you don't have breakpoints in your measurement routine, PC-DMIS displays a different layout of the screen display called the "execution layout". This layout initially hides the Edit window and expands the Graphic Display window, to show more of the part. It also displays the Probe Readouts window. You can change what windows appear during execution by pausing the execution and showing or hiding a window. Subsequent executions use your updated execution layout.

When execution finishes, the screen layout returns to the learn time layout. Any window you show or hide during learn time becomes part of the learn time layout.

If you execute a measurement routine with breakpoints, PC-DMIS continues to display the Edit window during execution:

In Command mode, PC-DMIS highlights the current command to execute in red.

Example of colors used in Command mode during execution with a breakpoint.

In Summary mode, PC-DMIS shows a green highlight in the Edit window for already executed commands. Features in yellow are about to be executed. Features undergoing execution are in blue. Non-executed commands are in orange.

Example of colors used in Summary mode during execution with a breakpoint.

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Execute

Execute Feature

Execute From

Execute From Cursor

Execute Block

Execute From Start Points

Mini Routines

Any Order Execution

Reset Execution List

Using the Execution Dialog Box